The recently named publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that previously urged the Klan to 'ride again' has stepped down, citing what she said was continuous and damaging interference by the paper's owner
An African-American woman who was named publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to"night ride again" has stepped down, citing what she said was continuous and damaging interference by the paper's owner.
Elecia R. Dexter, who took over the troubled Democrat-Reporter of Linden last month, told CNN Saturday that she left the weekly newspaper Monday because she could no longer work with owner and former editor and publisher Goodloe Sutton. He penned a staggering editorial with the headline"The Klan Needs to Ride Again" in the February 14 edition. Dexter said she resigned"so that her integrity and well-being can be maintained.
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